MARKET NEWS
S&P Global launches credit risk research chatbot
S&P Global has launched a chatbot on its S&P Capital IQ Pro market intelligence platform in an effort to simplify the credit risk research...
RBC Capital Markets onboards Harry Williams
Harry Williams has joined RBC Capital Markets as a credit trader. He is based in London.
RBC Capital Markets reported CAD 12 billion in revenue...
Dean Berry to lead MarketAxess EMEA and APAC
MarketAxess has named Dean Berry as group CEO and chief operating officer for the EMEA and APAC regions, effective Q4 2025.
In the London-based role,...
Bloomberg Terminal outage: “Fortunately it was a quiet day”
Bloomberg Terminals went dark this morning, with traders reporting outages worldwide.
The terminal costs between US$24k and US$27k per year.
Eric Boess, global head of trading...
Trading Intentions Survey: The breakdown in 2025
This year we're diving deeper into the Trading Intentions Survey. to give a more nuanced view of buy-side engagement with trading services, platforms and...
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Rates traders drop e-trading in April volatility
E-trading in US rates markets fell during April, with traders flocking to voice amid Treasury turmoil.
ADNV in US Treasuries spiked to US$1.342 trillion, up...
FEATURES
Declaration of dependence
US president to oversee financial institution regulation amid deregulation drive.
Executive orders signed by US president, Donald Trump, have given him oversight of all US...
The pretenders, and kingmakers, to the bond throne
Dealers are backing several new trading platforms who are fighting major incumbents for market share.
In the bond market, the trading platform landscape has been...
Electric dreams in global rates markets
Electronic trading between dealers and buy-side institutions is taking different paths in government bond markets, globally. Lucy Carter investigates.
“We have seen growth in the electronification of...
Trading Intentions Survey 2025
The battle for pre-trade analytics
The 2025 Trading Intentions Survey canvassed 40 buy-side trading desks across asset managers headquartered in Europe (52%) and the US...
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Trading Intentions Survey: The breakdown in 2025
This year we're diving deeper into the Trading Intentions Survey. to give a more nuanced view of buy-side engagement with trading services, platforms and...
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RISK & RETURN
FROM THE ARCHIVES
A third of US buy-side bond traders see dealer connectivity as priority
Research published by data, analytics and trading systems provider, IHS Markit, has found that 33% of buy-side fixed income traders are assessing direct connecting...
Emerging markets’ uneasy calm
Bid-ask spreads for fixed income trading in emerging markets have stabilised after a tumultuous year in 2022, according to TraX data, triggered by the...
EU lawmakers push for more stringent bond rules
The European Union is looking to tighten the region’s planned green bond standards to mitigate greenwashing from issuers of environmentally-friendly debt.
It calls on sellers...
Bloomberg backs Moroccan FX and govie market buildouts
The central bank of Morocco, Bank Al-Maghrib, has adopted Bloomberg’s Foreign Exchange Electronic Trading (FXGO) and E-bond (EBND) platforms.
The interbank derivatives market for foreign...
Gravis picks up Bloomberg AIM for front-office management
UK-based asset manager Gravis Capital Management has partnered with Bloomberg to support its future growth plans.
Bloomberg AIM, an order and investment management technology solution,...
CME saw record volumes for US Treasury complex on 28 May
CME Group saw record volumes for its US Treasury complex on 28 May, with 34,350,339 contracts traded.
The figure surpassed its previous record of 33,322,608...
Can retail order flow impact institutional trading?
A new trend or only a one-off? Gherardo Lenti Capoduri, head of Market Hub & Umberto Menconi, head of Digital Markets Structures, Market Hub, talk...
DirectBooks launches platform for issuance of US corporate bonds; European expansion on cards
DirectBooks, the sell-side consortium founded to increase efficiency in the bond issuance process, has launched its core service to try and simplify communication of...
ICE Bonds receives approval for expansion in Canada
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the market operator and data/technology provider has received approval to operate its ICE TMC fixed income trading platform in all Canadian...
US credit jitters do not spill over to Europe, ICE data shows
In an environment of rapid market shifts and mounting uncertainty, recent ICE data reveals that while volatility in U.S. credit markets has surged, European...
Trading protocols: The pros and cons of getting a two-way price in fixed income
Getting a two-way price is unusual in fixed income trading, but normal in FX; that is changing and yielding some real results for best...
BondWave upgrades platform
BondWave, the financial technology firm focused on fixed income solutions, has upgraded its portfolio and transaction analytics suite of tools with the release of...
